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The City of Seattle Responds to “Don’t Be Cleveland”
<This is a quick and very incomplete post as I’m about to get on a plane> The City of Seattle has finally acknowledged there is such a thing as an economy, publishing a report entitled Seawall: Building a Resilient Seattle Economy. No businesses were involved, but that seems to be the norm hereabouts on economic…
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Platformonomics TGIF #121: March 27, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Service has resumed. News UnfocusedAI Strategy Du Jour: “We’re an Enterprise Company!” To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go into the enterprise with the team you hired from…
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Platformonomics TGIF #120: March 13, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email No newsletter next week. Try to amuse yourselves. News Oracle “Beats”: Q3 FY26 Oracle “beat” the number this quarter and Wall Street sent the stock upwards almost…
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Platformonomics TGIF #119: March 6, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email I did a local radio appearance (?) on KIRO to talk about Cleveland as a cautionary tale for Seattle (audio, video). Somehow they chose SteveB screaming “developers”…
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Platformonomics TGIF #118: February 27, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email CAPEX retrospected! Onward! My Writing Follow the CAPEX 2025 Retrospective Letting an LLM take a shot at writing this piece was good for my sense of future…
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Follow the CAPEX 2025 Retrospective
Tl;dr CAPEX Go Up! Up Up Up! Previous retrospectives: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 plus earlier/other CAPEX musings. This is my tenth annual CAPEX (capital expenditures) retrospective. The fascination began earlier, as an asset-oblivious software guy confronting an alien lifeform of spending on physical property, plant and equipment. CAPEX separated the…